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Naturvetarna
Naturvetarna is a federation of Swedish trade unions representing professionals working in natural science Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer ... or related areas. The federation was established in 2009 by the merger of Naturvetareförbundet and Agrifack. The federation has sections representing: * Agronomists (Agronomförbundet) * Biomedical analysts (Biomedicinska analytikerföreningen) * Forest scientists (Delförbundet Skogsakademikerna) * Dietists (Dietisternas riksförbund) * Animal welfare inspectors (Djurskyddsinspektörernas riksförbund) * Ecological engineers (Ekoingenjörernas riksförbund) * Earth scientists (Geosektionen) * Environment and health workers (Miljö- och hälsoskyddssektionen, MoH) * Agronomical science teachers (Naturbrukslärarförbundet) * Nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svante Björck
Svante Björck is a Swedish Quaternary geology, Quaternary geologist and professor emeritus active at Lund University. In 2006 he was named Geologist of the Year by Geosektionen of Naturvetarna. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bjorck, Svante 21st-century Swedish geologists Swedish geographers Quaternary geologists Living people Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Academic staff of Lund University Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Swedish geologists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl-Olof Morfeldt
Carl-Olof Morfeldt (1919–2003) was a Swedish geologist and businessman. He was a founder and CEO of Hagconsult AB, an enterprise dedicated to geotechnical consultancy. In 1964, he became also its majority shareholder. Morfeldt was the foremost authority on geotechnical studies for building in Sweden. An expert on building tunnels and rooms in bedrock, Morfeldt was awarded an honorary doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology in 1979. In 1999, he was awarded the prize Geologist of the Year () by Naturvetarna Naturvetarna is a federation of Swedish trade unions representing professionals working in natural science Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of n .... References 1919 births 2003 deaths Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm University alumni 20th-century Swedish geologists Geotechnical engineers {{geologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Fredén
Curt Fredén (born 1937) is a Swedish Quaternary geologist. Most of his work has centered on the Holocene geology of the Baltic Sea. He was a member of the landslide commission () that existed from 1988 to 1996. In 2002 he was awarded the prize Geologist of the Year () by Naturvetarna. He has been editor for ''Berg och jord'', the geology volume of the Swedish National Atlas and worked on various geological maps of Quaternary deposits. Fredén was one of geologists who helped make the High Coast a World Heritage Site. Fredén has notably contributed to advance the understanding of the "enigmatic" Ancylus Lake and to discard the controversial Sveafallen at Degerfors Degerfors () is a locality and the seat of Degerfors Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden, with 7,160 inhabitants in 2010. Degerfors is the sixth-largest city in Örebro County. It is located at the southern shore of lake Möckeln, 13 km (8 mi) so ... as the lake's outlet. References 1937 births Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurits Lindström
Maurits Lindström (10 May 1932 – 14 November 2009) was a Swedish geologist and paleontologist. Lindström's initial work was divided among two topics conodont paleontology and the structural geology of the Scandinavian Caledonides in Lappland. In 1970, he described the conodont families Cordylodontidae, Gondolellidae, Proconodontidae and Rhipidognathidae. In 1971, he described the conodont genera '' Baltoniodus'', '' Microzarkodina'' and '' Paracordylodus''.Vom Anfang, Hochstand und Ende eines Epikontinentalmeeres. Maurits Lindström, Geologische Rundschau, March 1971, Volume 60, Issue 2, pages 419-438, Lindström published conodont studies up to 1987 after which he only supervised students working with conodonts. In the late 1980s Lindström began to study ancient impact craters in the Fennoscandian Shield. His studies have confirmed earlier speculations that Tvären and Lockne are craters. Awards and tributes In 1985 he became member of the Royal Swedish Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Confederation Of Professional Associations
The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations (, Saco) is a confederation of 21 independent professional association A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) is a group that usually seeks to advocacy, further a particular profession, the interests of individuals and organisations engaged in ...s in Sweden. It gathers some 960,000 members, all of whom are academics or graduate professionals with a university or college degree. The members include economists, lawyers, architects, graduate engineers, doctors, scientists, teachers and many others. A growing share of Swedish union members are affiliated to a Saco union: 1% in 1950 and 18% in 2018 (pensioners and students excluded).Anders Kjellberg (2019''Kollektivavtalens täckningsgrad samt organisationsgraden hos arbetsgivarförbund och fackförbund'' Department of Sociology, Lund University. Studies in Social Policy, Industrial Relations, Working Life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivi Vajda
Vivi Vajda is a Swedish palaeontologist. She is Professor and head of palaeobiology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Through the study of Microfossil, microscopic fossils such as pollen, plankton, algae, and Fungus, fungi, Vajda's research focuses on Effects of climate change on plant biodiversity, past vegetation changes, plant communities, and mass extinctions. She has also contributed to the understanding of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. She is a member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund. Life and work Vajda earned her BSc at Lund University, Sweden in 1989 and stayed there to obtain her PhD in 1998. She was a professor at Lund University from 2005 to 2015. She is currently the principal investigator of two research projects. Accolades * Årets geolog (Geologist of the Year) awarded by Naturvetarna on 2010. Professional roles * Chair of the Swedish National Committee for Geology, 2012–Present * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Marie Friis
Else Marie Friis (born 18 June 1947) is a Danish botanist and paleontologist. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Geoscience at Aarhus University. Her work has been fundamental in the phylogenetic analysis of angiosperms, with widespread application to reproductive biology. Education and early life The daughter of a bookseller Poul Friis and Marie Møller, she was born in Holstebro, and grew up in Skive, graduating from local school Viborg Katedralskole in 1966. She worked as an au-pair in Paris for a year, becoming interested in geology whilst her brother Henrik was a student in the subject. This inspired her to become an assistant teacher in botany and geology in 1971. In 1975 she earned a Magister's degree in science and in 1980 a Licentiate's degree in science, both from Aarhus University. Research and career Her area of interest is the reproductive biology, phylogeny and palaeoecology of flowering plants based on plant reproductive organs from the Cretaceou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverse Climate of Sweden, climate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats () and Swedes (tribe), Swedes (), who formed part of the sea-faring peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Lundqvist
Jan Lundqvist (4 August 1926 – 8 May 2024) was a Swedish geologist and considered among the foremost authorities on the Quaternary geology of Fennoscandia. He was son of Gösta Lundqvist and brother of Thomas Lundqvist, both of whom are geologists. Jan Lundqvist worked at Geological Survey of Sweden from 1951 to 80 and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Quaternary geology at Stockholms högskola in 1958, becoming also a teacher in that institution. He died in Danderyd Danderyd Municipality (; ) is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is one of the smallest municipalities of Sweden, but the most affluent. Its seat is located in Djursholm and it is located within Sto ... on 8 May 2024, at the age of 97. References External linksStockholms universitet – Jan Lundqvist {{DEFAULTSORT:Lundqvist, Jan 1926 births 2024 deaths Stockholm University alumni 20th-century Swedish geologists Quaternary geologists Members of the Royal S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gert Knutsson
Gert is a mainly masculine given name (sometimes a short form of Gerrit, Gerard, etc.), with some female bearers (short for Gertrude). Since 1993 no one in Sweden has been baptised as Gert according to the Swedish Bureau of Census, so the name is becoming increasingly rare. In 2010 around 12,000 in Sweden had the name as their first name according to the same source. Gert is most common in Sweden among men over 50 years of age. Around 400 women in Sweden have Gert as their first name according to the Swedish Bureau of Census. Sports *Gert Aandewiel (born 1969), Dutch football player and manager *Gert Andersen (born 1939), Danish handball player * Gert Bals (1936–2016), Dutch footballer *Gert Bender (born 1948), German motorcycle racer *Gerrit Gert van den Berg (cyclist) (1903-?), Dutch cyclist *Gert Blomé (1934–2021), Swedish ice hockey player *Gert Bolmer (born 1983), Dutch dressage equestrian *Gert Bongers (born 1946), Dutch track cyclist *Gert Brauer (1955–2018), G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David G
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the Kings of Israel and Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as "Davidic line, House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the ''Seder Olam Rabbah'', ''Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, Historicity of the Bible, the historicit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olle Selinius
Olle is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Olof, and a surname. It may refer to: Given name or nickname * Olle Åberg (1925–2013), Swedish middle-distance runner * Olle Åhlund (1920–1996), Swedish footballer * Olle Ericsson (other) * Olle Felten (born 1953), Swedish politician * Olle Hagnell (1924–2011), Swedish psychiatrist * Olle Håkansson (1927–2001), Swedish footballer * Olle Håkansson (curler) (born 1956), Swedish retired curler and coach * Olle Hellbom (1925–1982), Swedish film director, producer, and screenwriter * Olle Hjortzberg (1872–1959), Swedish painter and illustrator * Olle Johansson (sailor) (born 1957), Swedish sailor * Olle Johansson (swimmer) (1927–1994), Swedish swimmer and water polo player * Olle Langert (1924–2016), Swedish painter and sculptor * Olle Länsberg (1922–1998), Swedish screenwriter * Olle Larsson (1928–1960), Swedish rower * Olle Lind, Swedish jazz trombonist * Olle Ljungström (1961–201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
